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AHC conducted two training sessions: one with
judges, prosecutors, and Judicial Police
officers, and another one with State Police
officers
 20.02.2008
In the
context of sensitizing and increasing capacities
of justice and police employees for the
implementation of recommendations by the
European Commission against Racism and
Intolerance (ECRI) presented in its III report
on Albania 2005, the Albanian Helsinki
Committee, in cooperation with the Magistrates’
School, the General Directory of State Police,
and ECRI, during February 18-19, 2008, conducted
two training sessions: one with judges,
prosecutors, and Judicial Police officers, and
another one with State Police officers.
In both
training courses, some of the following issues
were addressed: ECRI recommendations and
Albanian legislation in the area of racial
discrimination and intolerance; ECRI
recommendations on the judicial system, police,
and law enforcers; the role of police,
prosecutors, and judges in preventing and
fighting against racism, intolerance, and
discrimination, and problems of practice in
Albania.
Participating in the training were police
officers, prosecutors, Judicial Police officers,
coming from districts in which there are
concentrations of the Roma minority and the
Egyptian community.
 The
training was offered by Ms. Sarah Burton, jurist
at the General Secretariat of the ECRI, Ms.
Vasilika Hysi, Executive Director of AHC, and
ECRI member Ms. Suela Mëneri, jurist, legal
representative at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
Participants expressed appreciation for the
training in terms
 of
novelties it offered in the theoretical and
practical areas, the treatment of practical
cases, and the professional expertise offered.
Regarding
the above, AHC thanks ECRI, the General
Directory of Police, and the Magistrates’
School, for the cooperation in realizing these
training programs, as well as CORDAID for
supporting the activity of AHC in the areas of
discrimination and intolerance. |
